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A Study on the Assessment Method of the Level of Study and Practice in Won-Buddhism

  • Religions of Korea
  • 2020, 47(), pp.45~82
  • Publisher : The Research Center of Religions
  • Research Area : Humanities > Religious Studies
  • Received : January 15, 2020
  • Accepted : February 5, 2020
  • Published : February 29, 2020

JANG, JIN YOUNG 1

1원광대학교

Candidate

ABSTRACT

The training course and evaluation system of Won-Buddhist mind practice was established by accepting the advantages of modern educational elements and combining them with the retreat system during summer and winter that originates from traditional Buddhism. The Assessment Method of the Level of Study and Practice was enacted in 1925, that is in the same year as the method of training and the method of stages of practice status. The Assessment Method of the Level of Study and Practice seeks to examine the training achievements in the three subjects of Cultivation, Inquiry and Choice. The Assessment of the Level of Study and Practice was designed to appraise a practitioner’s ability in an objective manner and to ensure that the results belonged to the stages of practice status. Later, the Assessment Method of the Level of Study and Practice was included in the Yukdae-yoryŏng (Six Great Essential Main Principles) published in 1932, and was later followed by the Assessment Method of Preliminary Level of Study and Practice and the Dharma Grade of Action and Wisdom. After liberation from Japan, the Assessment Method of the Level of Study and Practice reduced the role of the system for training evaluation and took the auxiliary role for the advancement of the dharma status. In order to improve this, it is necessary to expand the period of fixed-term training and to re-arrange and reinforce the training evaluation system. This will restore the mediating role between the training method and the stages of practice status (or stages of dharma status), and the original role of the Assessment of the Level of Study and Practice as the training evaluation system. As a result, we can objectively evaluate the ability of a practitioner participating in training and clearly specify the qualifications of a leader through the stages of dharma status.

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